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Internet giant Google continued to shrug off the worst effects of the recession, announcing today that it had seen an 18% increase in profits for its last financial quarter.In its latest financial results, the Californian technology giant posted net profits of $1.48bn (£901m) for the three months to the end of June, on the back of revenues of $5.52bn (£3.36bn). While that marks just a 3% increase in revenues on the same period of 2008, net profit rocketed by 18% - up from $1.25bn for the second quarter of last year.The increases, achieved through what it called 'responsible efforts to manage expenses', marked a surprise boost for the company which has so far managed to ride through the depths of the worldwide economic crisis.'Google had a very good quarter, especially given the continued macro-economic downturn,' said chief executive Eric Schmidt in a statement. 'We remain focused on investing in technical innovation to drive growth.'Over the last two years the company has started dive

Internet giant Google continued to shrug off the worst effects of the recession, announcing today that it had seen an 18% increase in profits for its last financial quarter.In its latest financial results, the Californian technology giant posted net profits of $1.48bn (£901m) for the three months to the end of June, on the back of revenues of $5.52bn (£3.36bn). While that marks just a 3% increase in revenues on the same period of 2008, net profit rocketed by 18% - up from $1.25bn for the second quarter of last year.The increases, achieved through what it called 'responsible efforts to manage expenses', marked a surprise boost for the company which has so far managed to ride through the depths of the worldwide economic crisis.'Google had a very good quarter, especially given the continued macro-economic downturn,' said chief executive Eric Schmidt in a statement. 'We remain focused on investing in technical innovation to drive growth.'Over the last two years the company has started dive

Browsers are the future of mobile applications and they are just beginning to gain the features that will make new uses of mobile phones compelling, a Google executive said Thursday.

An anonymous reader writes 'Twelve years ago OpenBSD developers started engineering a release process that has resulted in quality software being delivered on a consistent 6 month schedule — 25 times in a row, exactly on the date promised, and with no critical bugs. This on-time delivery process is very different from how corporations manage their product releases and much more in tune with how volunteer driven communities are supposed to function. Theo de Raadt explains in this presentation how the OpenBSD release process is managed (video) and why it has been such a success.' of this story at Slashdot.

Microsofts Windows Mobile 6.5, its upcoming operating system for mobile-devices, includes a number of improvements specifically designed to help it match and compete against Apples iphone, the Palm Pre and other smartphones. Because the name of the game has increasingly become the number of mobile applications a company can offer, microsoft also plans on rolling out Windows Marketplace for Mobile, its own applications portal, later in 2009. Embracing the shift towards touchscreens, Windows Mobile 6.5 has been specifically tailored to allow the user to tap, pan and flick in order to navigate through the interface; the Start screen has been designed in a honeycomb configuration specifically for easier finger-navigation. The ability to enter a PIN and interact with message notifications even from the Lock screen, as well as display customized widgets on the new Start screen, are more features specific to the newest version of Mobile. - ...

I just watched Google's Jeff Ragusa's video clip explaining the Google Apps reseller model. If I didn't know any better I would have thought the Just for Laughs Festival I attend every year started early. Here is the big joke: Google is offering a whopping 20% of the Google Apps revenue generated by the Channel for directing their customers to Google's coffers. For those of you that don't know yet, let me give you the math: Google charges $50 per year per user for access to Google Apps. Gee Goog, you shouldn't have. I mean really! A cool $10 per year for every user I hand over? Where do I sign up for this cash bonanza!read more

Until Oracle owns Sun, it must help maintain credibility of the UltraSparc product line or watch Sun customers start migrating en masse to a new vendor.

Giant universities and start-up companies are finding they need one another to bring the benefits of nanotechnology to the public.

CWmike writes 'Mozilla has confirmed the first security vulnerability in Firefox 3.5, saying that the bug could be used to hijack a machine running the company's newest browser. A noted Firefox contributor called the situation 'self-inflicted' and said it was likely that the hacker who posted public exploit code Monday became aware of the flaw by rooting through Bugzilla, Mozilla's bug- and change-tracking database. The vulnerability is in the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine that debuted with Firefox 3.5, said Mozilla. '[It] can be exploited by an attacker who tricks a victim into viewing a malicious Web page containing the exploit code,' Mozilla's security blog reported Tuesday.' of this story at Slashdot.

This week, Best Buy started selling what it says is the first portable HD Radio receiver, the $50 Insignia HD Radio Portable ...